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county might be willing to have the money expended on this 

 work. 



In the third place, we realize that Boards of Freeholders, 

 being directly influenced ' by political considerations, are obliged 

 at times — I do not mean to say at all times — to make their ap- 

 pointments in accordance with political expediency, and we know 

 that does not work for efficiency in the administration of public 

 business. I am not saying this at all as a matter of criticism. 

 Such is the price that we pay for our democracy, good and bad, 

 and most of us are willing to pay the price. Nevertheless, so far 

 as the mosquito extermination work is concerned, its administra- 

 tion under the authority of a Commission, consisting, to our 

 knowledge, to my particular knowledge and experience, of men 

 who are directly devoted to public interest, and who serve with- 

 out compensation, who are selected because of the spirit of 

 service which they have, is likely to give us more satisfactory 

 results than its administration under the control of the average 

 Board of Freeholders. These, ladies and gentlemen, .are very 

 important reasons why the mandatory feature should be retained 

 in the law under which mosquito extermination work is being 

 done in a number of counties of the State. 



Personally, I should be delighted to have the mandatory 

 clause eliminated. Selfishness would prompt me to advise the 

 elimination of the mandatory clause, for I am free to confess 

 that this law has given me more annoyance than any feature of 

 the work for which I am responsible. There are men in this 

 audience who know that nature has not designed me to be a 

 lobbyist, but it is all in the day's work, and I have had to spend 

 a great many hours in lobbying* against the modification of the 

 law, because I felt that any change in the law might be inimical 

 to the continuance of the work, which means so much to the 

 State, and is likely to mean a great deal more. 



A few words as to the economic features of the mosquito 

 extermination in this State. We may classify these considera- 

 tions under the head of agricultural and suburban. Southern 

 New Jersey has problems which are distinct from those of 

 Northern New Jersey. There are still more than a million 



